The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-05-14
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Richmond.
Eau CLAIRE theaters are required
to pay $75 license fee.
X. o. LoFTsGARDEN has been held
to trial at Madison on a charge of
forging note for $500.
SEVERAL families in the southern
part OF La Crosse are said to he suffer
ing for food and clothing
IHE Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Company will double the capacity OF
Its shops IN North La Crosse, by erect
ing new buildings and adding new ma.
cninery.
THE $500" company will build two
commercial docks, two -four docks
two ore docks and a coal dock at
Saunders Point, or Gladstone as the
aew town is called.
AN attempt was made to wreck q,
passenger train near Darlington. Four
lies were fastened to the rails at the
DOT OF a heavy grade. The train was
partly stopped before the obstruction
was reached, but the engine was bad
ly damaged.
The Eay; Claire paper mill averaged
five and one-half tons a day during
April. The operatives, in common
with others throughout the United
States, have signed petition to close
from Saturdays to Mondays. Mil
owners too are almost d unit IL favor
| Of the movement as it will not only
give employees the Sunday rest but will
| lessen the production OF paper and
stimulate better prices.
The sensational reports that the
late DR.. Charles Bruli, OF Avoca, and
the notorious Charles Bender were the
same person are emphatically denied.
Objection is being made by some OF
the property owners west OF Madison
to the appraisals made by the right OF
way appraisers for the Chicago, Madi-
son & Northern Company.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway Company is plating viii
lage at Tomahawk.
Railway companies will sell round
trip tickets to the Monona Lake AS
sembly for fare and one-tourth.
Hattie Armstrong, OF Prairie du
Chen, burned to death at Black Lick,
Ohio.
mlt-ed suicide at Milwaukee on the
5-h by taking poison.
The physicians OF Douglas. Bayfield,,
Ashland and Sawyer Counties have
tormed q medical association under
the title OF Northwestern Medical AS
ISOLATION.
La CROSSE has saloon limit" be-
yond which places for thesale of liquor
ar9 not licensed.
HENRY NIEDECKES, Sr., an old resi-.
dent Of Milwaukee. died at his resi-
dnce in that city on the Sd inst,
aged IT years.
THE common council OF La Crosse
has taken action TO have the river
front cleared of lumber ana Other
articles.
MAYOR KNIGHT, OF Ashland has
ordered gamblers to leave the city.
AFTER anidleness of nearly q month,
the Milwaukee stove mOulders have
determined to return to work, not
withstanding the tahooed st. Louis
patterns.
THE office and general merchandise
store Of the Northwestern Lumber
Company, at PortervilIe, burned on
the Sd, most Of the contents being
saved. The loss, $4,000, was fully
covered by insurance in the Lumber
mans and Manufacturer and the
Mutual Fire, of Eau Claire, the Ma
tional, of Hartford, the Traders OF
Chicago, and the Phoenix and British
America.
A COMPANY with S21 900 capital
stock has been incorporated at Stur
geon Bay to build bridge across
Sturgeon Bay.
The farm house OF Charles New
ourg, near La Crosse, was destroyed
by fire.
GEO. w. FoRRAY, of Egg Harbor,
received notice, from the pension office
at Washington, that his pension claim
had been allowed. He received 81, 900
back pay and $24 per month.
Rev. K. NILATTE is at Sturgeon Bay,
arranging to build a Catholic cathe-
dral and bishops residence there.
ADAM WETrZLER and Gus Rivers
quarreled at Ashland, resulting in the
latter being badly mutilated with a
knife in the hands OF the former.
JAMES HIT, q hOmesteader, was
burned 10 death in his house near
bayfield,. Only small portions OF his
charred remains were found in the
ashes.
THE total log cut on the Wolf River
Tor the past season was 10000 feet.
WISCONSIN lumbermen are investing
IN Southern pine lands.
PATRICK ELLIOTT, for many years
miner in Southern Wisconsin, was
killed by tall from 81 precipice near
Galena, III.
LA CROSSE is to be lighted by cleo
tricity.
IL the circuit court at Racine, in
the case OF Herman Warner VS.. +. B.
Cushman and the American Tele-
phone Company, judgment Was ren,
dered against the company for 50, ,120.
The suit was brought to recover for
services rendered the company by
Mr.. Warner, who Is an attorney, III
procuring evidence to substantiate
Cushman's claim as the inventor of
the telephone.
WILLIAM DOUGHERTY, a farmer liv-
ing near Onalaska, La CJosse County,
had his barn, five mules, ten hogs and
several harnesses burned. The loss Is
81, 500.
The Ashland city council passed the
ordinance granting the Ashland Street
Railway Company q franchise to build
and operate q street railway within
the city limits for A term OF fifty
years.
The Lacrosse Y. NJ. c. A. is negotiat-
ing for the purchase OF ground on
which to erect a handsome hall. The
site will cost Sl2, ,000.
FREDERICK Tick, an aged German,
committed suicide at La Crosse on
the 2d by shooting himself, and was
found dead by his wife when she re-
turned to the house. He had been
sick.
JOHN f. BowE, a somnambuEst,
leaped from the second story OF a La
Crosse hotel while asleep. He escaped
with q few bruises.
THE official canvass shows that the